ᚱ· Hall of Rune Alphabet
Rune Alphabet.
The full runic alphabets of the North and how they were written.
ᚦ · About this hall
The Hall of the Rune Alphabet covers the writing systems of the old North as a whole: the 24-rune Elder Futhark used across Germanic Europe, the shorter 16-rune Younger Futhark of the Viking Age, and the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc that grew alongside them. Articles here explain how runes were carved, the order of the aettir, the differences between long-branch and short-twig forms, and how to read inscriptions found on rune stones, bracteates and everyday objects. This is the place to learn the alphabet itself — its history, its mechanics and its quiet logic — before stepping into the meaning of individual runes.
Gathering writings…